Brown, Al -& Inner Force-
Dub Cuts: Mixed By Paolo Baldini Dubfiles
This set of Al Brown dub mixes by Paolo Baldini DubFiles was a project that Pressure Sounds had been itching to tackle for some time. They finally got around to starting on the mixes during the lockdown period, when everyone had a little more time and headspace [lucky for some]. Al Brown is a fine Jamaican singer who came closest to troubling the UK charts with his Al Green cover version 'Here I Am Baby.' In the early 1980's he recorded a beautiful album, backed by Inner Force, which was inexplicably never released, and thought to be lost forever. When Al Brown's original multi-track tapes were miraculously discovered, he handed them over to Pressure Sounds, who had them restored and beautifully mixed by Paolo 'DubFiles' Baldini, with a sympathetic blend of overdubs on top of the original backing tracks. These dubbed-out mixes are firmly in the roots reggae tradition of classic Jamaican recordings from the '70s, blended with the tastefully restrained modern studio techniques of today. Tracks range from the heavy dubs of 'Ghetto Situation' and 'Dub Me Again', to the funkier 'Liquid Dream', featuring Toike Mitsuhiro from Japan on vibraphone.